Morning Reads 11/28/12

There’s basically one hospital in Southwest Georgia; Phoebe Putney. Like a good poker player, they hold all the cards–or in this case all the little hospitals. But is the super-mega-huge-and-vast hospital a monopoly? The FTC says so.

If you haven’t bought a Power Ball ticket beware, some machines may not work. Unfortunately, some people would be more upset about this than a voting machine not working.

Could Georgia’s Immigration Crackdown Law go before the United States Supreme Court? Question 1) how much will we have to pay to challenge lower court rulings, and Question 2) is this the new plot-line for a Mel Brooks film?

Nuclear plant may not be ready to go until 2017. Must need more plutonium or something. Um, plutonium. Wait a minute. Are… Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?

Saxby, the Georgia Lion of the Senate, was on NPR this morning talking about how he is no longer BFFs with Grover Norquist.

Anyway, listening to him I wondered why the GOP hasn’t put him behind a microphone more often nationally. He has a great demeanor, sounds good (unlike Mitch McConnell, ugh), he’s persuasive… it just makes no sense.

Man. Pick a sporting season this year it looks like its going to be a bad year for the ACC.

Banning earmarks doesn’t save money. Earmarks are not additional appropriations, they are just directing already approved appropriations. If legislators don’t earmark money it just means that the executive branch gets to decide how to spend it. But it still gets spent.

Has anybody heard from Calypso? How about we folks in the P/P community hold a seance to see if we can bring Calypso back from his post-election depression? Even I managed to get past my rants of those first few days, am on the road to recovery, manage a fairly sensible post from time to time now. Calypso, we miss your wit and your boat. Heck, we even miss the fun of having you get a whole thread stuck in italics!